Steven Weiland

Steven Weiland is a professor in the graduate
program in Higher,
Adult, and
Lifelong Education (in the College of Education).
He has degrees
from Brooklyn
College of the City University of New York (B.A.
in English) and
the University
of Chicago (PhD in English).

Previous to his appointment at Michigan State, he
held faculty
and
administrative positions at the University of
Michigan, the
University of
Cincinnati, the University of Iowa and the
University of
Minnesota. For much of
his career, Professor Weiland taught in
departments of English
and American
Studies. At the University of Minnesota, where he
taught courses
in literature
and the history of psychology (at the Institute
for Child
Development), he was
director of the Department of Professional
Development
Programs. He also
spent nine years as executive director of the
National Federation
of State
Humanities Councils, a non-profit organization
serving the state
programs of
the National Endowment for the Humanities. After
moving to
MSU, Professor
Weiland also spent eight years as director of the
University’s
Jewish Studies
Program in the College of Arts and Letters.

Professor Weiland’s primary interests are in the
intersections of
the humanities
and the social and behavioral sciences in the
subjects of adult
and career
development, technology and higher education,
biography and
other forms of
narrative inquiry, and in research methods,
rhetoric and writing.
He teaches
courses in career development (EAD 864) and
education in the
digital age (EAD
878) among other subjects and the college-wide
course in
research (CEP 930).
In all, Professor Weiland teaches five online
courses in two
College of
Education MA programs, all in a self-paced
hypermedia format
he has devised.
In spring 2015, Professor Weiland will offer a new
hybrid course
for PhD
students in “Scholarly and Scientific
Communications in the
Digital Age.”

Professor Weiland is the author of Intellectual
Craftsmen:
Ways and Works
in American Scholarship and of many essays on
subjects in
the
humanities and education, and he is the co-author
of
Keywords of Social
Gerontology and co-editor of Jazz in
Mind. He is at
work on
Faculty Work in the Digital Age: A Primer
and The
Scholar's Tale:
Life Stories and Intellectual Identities.